Found Poem

This poem is formed using lines that stuck out to me while reading Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

I had grown nervous and irritable. (p. 5)
There was always something or another in my way. (p. 6)

My disordered condition ran away with me; (p. 10)
I was inspired with the craziest notions, (p. 10)

Strange as I was at this instant to myself, (p. 11)
absolutely a prey to peculiar invisible inner influences, (p. 11)

Nothing escaped my notice; (p. 11)
I was clearheaded and ready-witted. (p. 11)

I lay with open eyes, (p. 33)
in a state of utter absence of mind. (p. 33)

Hunger began to assail me downright in earnest. (p. 26)
Hunger was waging a fierce battle in me, (p. 102)

Oh, what strange freaks one’s thoughts are guilty of (p. 44)
when one is starving. (p. 44)

Fragments of the teachings of my childhood (p. 13)
ran through my memory. (p. 13)

Hope flames up again in me; as yet, nothing is lost (p. 23)
Well, it was a lovely day, anyway! (p. 40)